Patents Examined by William Nealon
  • Patent number: 10356239
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method to provide transcriptions of an audio communication session is disclosed. The method may include receiving audio data at a first device from a second device over a first wireless network connection of a first wireless network type and providing the audio data to a speaker of the first device for output of the audio data. The method may further include encoding the audio data at the first device based on a second wireless network type and transmitting the encoded audio data from the first device over a second wireless network of the second wireless network type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas N. Pakidko, Jasper Pan
  • Patent number: 10356576
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for determining a location of a mobile apparatus. The mobile apparatus can include a chassis, a communications module, and a controller including a processor and memory, wherein the processor is programmed to perform instructions that are stored in the memory. The instructions can include defining an offline perimeter surrounding the chassis, locating a chassis position in relation to the offline perimeter, and determining whether the chassis position is outside the offline perimeter. Upon making this determination, the processor is programmed to establish communication between the mobile apparatus and the central location via the communication module, receive an indication from a network that the chassis is located outside an online perimeter that is larger than the offline perimeter, and output a signal upon receiving the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Diversey, Inc.
    Inventor: Heinz Gatter
  • Patent number: 10349215
    Abstract: A prompting method includes: sending, by a server, a navigation map requested to be outputted to a user device when receiving a map output request of the user device, the navigation map being outputted by the user device, wherein the navigation map is pre-generated according to each article shelf position, each shelf channel position and an article position of each article in a place; acquiring an article position of the pre-searching article in the place; acquiring a device position of the user device in the place; and generating a navigation prompt message according to a distance between the device position and an article position of each pre-searching commodity, and triggering the user device to output the navigation prompt message in the navigation map, the navigation prompt message being used for prompting the article position of each pre-searching article and a distance to the device position to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SHANG HAI PAN SHI TOU ZI GUAN LI YOU XIAN GONG SI
    Inventors: ZhongGuang PAN, YanMei Teng
  • Patent number: 10341872
    Abstract: A first device can receive an attach request that includes information associated with a user device. The user device can provide the attach request to request access to a network. The first device can provide, to a second device and using the information associated with the user device, a request for information associated with a group identifier that is associated with the user device. The first device can receive, from the second device, the information associated with the group identifier that is associated with the user device based on providing the request for information associated with the group identifier. The first device can determine a network slice identifier that is associated with the user device based on the information associated with the group identifier that is associated with the user device. The first device can permit the user device to access a network slice, of the network, that is associated with the network slice identifier based on determining the network slice identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: James Mathison, Niranjan B. Avula
  • Patent number: 10327101
    Abstract: Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Arunkumar Puppala, Liuyin Cheng, Wayne Patterson
  • Patent number: 10313876
    Abstract: A method of system information (SI) acquisition with reduced signaling overhead is proposed. To reduce SI broadcast overhead, the quantity of periodic SI broadcast and the frequency of on-demand SI acquisition need to be reduced. To reduce the frequency of on-demand SI acquisition, rather than always re-acquire SI when serving cell changes, UE is enabled to reuse stored SI information elements across different cells. More specifically, a novel concept of SI ID is introduced to be associated with an area that applies the same SI configuration. UE can reuse stored SI information elements if the stored SI information elements are valid based on the SI ID and validity check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Per Johan Mikael Johansson, Chia-Chun Hsu, Guan-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 10306515
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of wireless load balancing includes receiving, by a communications controller from a device, a plurality of messages including a plurality of demands of a plurality of UEs and a plurality of locations of the plurality of UEs, where the plurality of demands includes a demand of a UE of the plurality of UEs, where the plurality of locations includes a location of the first UE, and where the location of the UE is in a cell and determining a utility map in accordance with the plurality of demands and the plurality of locations. The method also includes determining a recommendation of user behavior of a user of the first UE in accordance with the utility map, the location of the first UE, and the demand of the UE and transmitting, by the communications controller to the UE, the recommendation of user behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rainer Schoenen, Ziyang Wang, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Nimal Gamini Senarath, Ngoc Dung Dao
  • Patent number: 10298052
    Abstract: One general aspect includes a system to provide charge to a portable electronic device under an Extended Power Profile (EPP), the system including: a memory configured to include a program and a processor configured to execute the program, where the program enables the processor to: determine whether the portable electronic device can support wireless charging; if the portable electronic device can support wireless charging, determine whether the portable electronic device can support being charged under the EPP; and if the portable electronic device can support being charged under the EPP, provide charge under the EPP to the portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Valentin Bona
  • Patent number: 10298384
    Abstract: A hardened VoIP system is presented that includes secure push-to-talk voice functionality. Through the addition of encryption, authentication, user filtering, and integration with the new and existing LMR systems, a secure voice platform ensures malicious software, unauthorized access and brute force security attacks will not compromise the voice communications of the system. The VoIP system is engineered to ensure graceful system degradation in the event of maintenance activities, natural disasters and failure modes. The hardened VoIP system offers the functions a LMR trunking system while utilizing broadband connections. Private calls, group calls, Emergency Alarms with covert monitoring capability, scanning and priority scanning may be incorporated into the system. The system includes a VoIP controller that serves as a trunking controller, manages available VoIP based conference bridges, and assigns them as needed to the parties involved in each voice call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Clever Devices Ltd.
    Inventors: Philip B Bockrath, Darryl G Curtis
  • Patent number: 10277458
    Abstract: A gateway apparatus including a first inter-device interface configured to communicate with a monitoring apparatus; a second inter-device interface configured to communicate with multiple subordinate base station apparatuses; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to generate first configuration information when second configuration information is received from the monitoring apparatus via the first inter-device interface. The processor generates the first configuration information by performing protocol conversion of converting the second configuration information into a format adapted to the second inter-device interface for the multiple base station apparatuses. The processor is further configured to transmit the generated first configuration information to the multiple base station apparatuses via the second inter-device interface, and divide the multiple base station apparatuses into predetermined groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuta Aoki, Osamu Yamano
  • Patent number: 10278038
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a computer server for searching for a short-distance object and pertains to the field of mobile terminal technologies. The method includes: receiving a short-distance object search request sent by a target terminal; obtaining location information of the target terminal from the short-distance object search request; separately determining, according to the location information of the target terminal, location information of prestored objects for short-distance object search, and multiple preset distance ranges, objects whose distances from the target terminal fall within each distance range, to obtain one or more objects corresponding to each distance range; separately randomly selecting at least one to-be-presented object from the one or more objects corresponding to each distance range; and returning the to-be-presented objects to be presented on the target terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuan Tian, Lin Li
  • Patent number: 10278097
    Abstract: The invention relates to the initiation of a service to a mobile terminal capable of communicating via at least a first and second access network. Further, the invention relates to a reduction of power consumption of mobile terminals supporting connectivity to at least two access networks. The invention also relates to mobile communication systems and in particular to mobile communications through heterogeneous access networks. In order to prove improved method for initiating services to mobile terminals and/or to reduce power consumption of mobile terminals, the invention introduces of a sleep state that can be entered by the terminal for an access system if same is not used. Upon requesting a service from/to the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal starts service initiation through a second access system and transits back to active state for the first access system for service provision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Jens Bachmann, Kilian Weniger, Rolf Hakenberg
  • Patent number: 10278072
    Abstract: A communication device may supply connection information to a first wireless interface so as to store the connection information in an interface memory, establish a wireless connection via a second wireless interface with a terminal device by using the connection information after the connection information has been sent to the terminal device, execute a first authentication using first authentication information in a case where the first authentication information is received from the terminal device, send a first registration instruction to the terminal device by using the wireless connection via the second wireless interface in a case where the first authentication is successful, and execute a second authentication using the first authentication information in a case where the first authentication information which has been registered in the terminal device is received from the terminal device after the first registration instruction has been sent to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shun Takeuchi, Hirotaka Asakura
  • Patent number: 10264447
    Abstract: The implementation of anonymization validation protects the privacy of subscribers that uses the telecommunication services of a wireless telecommunication network. The anonymization validation checks the data in an anonymized communication record table to ensure the data is properly filtered or encrypted. The anonymized communication record table contains data pertaining to at least one of telephone calls, messages, and data connectivity sessions that are initiated or received by multiple subscribers of a wireless telecommunication network. The anonymized communication record is generated from an original communication record table via filtering out or encryption of the data pertaining to one or more subscribers. The performance of the anonymization validation includes performing opt-out filtering validation, network cell anonymity filtering validation, and telephone number encryption validation on the anonymized communication record table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Rami Al-Kabra, Noah Dahlstrom, Prem Kumar Bodiga
  • Patent number: 10264080
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a location of a user based on locations of other users. First user location information and second user location information is received. The first user location information includes a first centroid and first radius associated with a first user position and the second user location information includes a second centroid and second radius associated with a second user position. The second user is further associated with second user venue information. A venue correlation score between the first user and the second user is determined based on an amount of overlap between the first user radius and the second user radius and a social metric indicating a strength of a social relationship between the first user and second user. Venue information for the first user is created based on the second user venue information when the relationship score exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: AXON VIBE AG
    Inventors: Katherine Yoshida, Thomas Annicq, Roman Oberli, Jacopo Tagliabue
  • Patent number: 10244505
    Abstract: A mobility node is configured to track a mobility of entities. A pool of mobility nodes serve a common section of a cellular network, wherein for each of the mobile entities a unique identifier is used to uniquely identify the corresponding mobile entity and a temporary identifier is used to identify the corresponding mobile entity in at least one section of the cellular network. A message is received for one of the mobile entities identifying the mobile entity by an unknown temporary identifier. An identification request is transmitted to a storage unit storing information allowing a unique identifier to be determined based on a temporary identifier, the identification request requesting the unique identifier based on the unknown temporary identifier. A response to the transmitted identification request is received including information allowing the unique identifier to be determined. A reaction message is transmitted taking into account the unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Oliver Speks, Florin Alexandru Deaconu
  • Patent number: 10231282
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a predicted tune-away for a set of voice frames. In some aspects, the user equipment may alter a vocoder rate from a first vocoder rate to a second vocoder rate that is less than the first vocoder rate based at least in part on determining the predicted tune-away for the set of voice frames. In some aspects, the user equipment may drop, in connection with an occurrence of the predicted tune-away, a subset of packets for a time period corresponding to the predicted tune-away. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun Lee, Qingxin Chen, Min Wang, Chih-Ping Hsu, Omar Sabbarini
  • Patent number: 10225804
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus is configured to determine a power control command including a target receiver power level for uplink transmission. The apparatus is configured to transmit a frame to a wireless device. The frame may include information associated with the determined target receiver power level for uplink transmission from the wireless device and a transmit power level at which the frame is to be transmitted. The information may enable the wireless device to compute a transmit power for the uplink transmission. The frame may include power control commands for other wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arjun Bharadwaj, Bin Tian
  • Patent number: 10200832
    Abstract: A network-based service is utilized to facilitate twinning of two or more communication devices associated with a subscriber account. Incoming communication is intercepted by a communication device and forwarded to a network server, which in turn transmits the incoming communication to the multiple twinned devices. In addition, identifier data associated with outgoing communication is replaced with a primary identifier (e.g., customer telephone number (CTN)) of a user's primary device or a common identifier (e.g., a mobile one number (MON)) assigned to devices associated with the user's subscriber account. Communication devices can be temporarily twinned for a defined time period, during which a common bill can be generated for the twinned devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Edward G. Schmit, Jayanta Das
  • Patent number: 10200841
    Abstract: A method for transferring data using optimized short message transport includes receiving at a first network node an attach request message. The attach request message includes short-message data. The first network node receives from a second network node a short-message data response message. The short-message data response message includes at least one of an address for a short message service center, an indication that indicates no mobile-terminated message is pending for the UE, or a short-message entity destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Adrian Buckley, Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker, Nicholas James Russell